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Particle Zoo and Feynman Diagrams Cristina Lazzeroni Professor in Particle Physics STFC Public Engagement Fellow ASE Conference 2016 University of Birmingham Muirhead 118 7th January 2016, 10:00-12:00 Particles accelerated to speed of light : E= 2 mc Energy and mass are related, in general E2 = p2 + m02 , c=1 (Invariant mass)2 = E2 – (px2+ py2 +pz2) Protons smashing together can produce all sorts of particles, seen in the earliest moments of the universe The Modern Picture of Protons and Neutrons In 1969, an experiment at SLAC using a 2-mile long 20 billion eV electron accelerator showed that protons have structure “quarks” • Protons and neutrons made from Up (u) and Down (d) quarks. • u-quarks have +2/3 of electron charge, d-quarks have –1/3 Proton Neutron Discovery of Quarks γ carries momentum Wave-function oscillates rapidly in space and time ⇒ probes short distances and short time. Rutherford Scattering Excited states E ! Elastic scattering from quarks in proton λ<< size of proton A Nice Happy Family of Particles Up quark (u) Down quark (d) Electron (e-) Mass ~ 0.003 ~ 0.006 ~0.0005 (relative to the mass of a single proton) Electron neutrino (νe) ~ 10-8 ? Everything around us (the whole Periodic Table) is made of up quarks, down quarks and electrons. But the masses don’t add up…. … for some reason, there is more … leptons quarks Nature supplies us with a copy of the family but heavier … … and another copy of the family but even heavier … charm up down strange e µ νe νµ beauty τ ντ The Top Quark … and that is where it seems to stop Weighs about the same as a gold nucleus! Top has no time to hadronize Antimatter 1928: Paul Dirac put together Relativity with Quantum Mechanics into the theory of the electron … it also predicted anti-electrons (`positrons’) Every fundamental fermion particle has an antiparticle, with the same mass, but opposite charge. electron e- e+ up quark u+2/3 u-2/3 positron up anti-quark etc etc … Antimatter In unifying QM and Relativity, there is the need of negative-energy particles: antimatter Gravitational Force Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) Electromagnetic Force James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) Size of atoms is set by strength of EM force radioactive decays How stars generate energy Weak Force Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954) cay e d n o r t u ne holding proton, nucleus Strong Force gluons Size of nuclei is set by strength of strong force LEPTONS q e– ν1 µ– Second Generation ν2 τ– Third Generation ν3 First Generation Bosons: Force carriers integer charge QUARKS m/GeV q m/GeV –1 0.0005 d –1/3 0.3 u +2/3 0.3 s –1/3 0.5 0 ≈0 –1 0.106 0 ≈0 c +2/3 1.5 –1 1.77 b –1/3 4.5 0 ≈0 +2/3 175 t Leptons: integer charge, DON’T feel STRONG Quarks: fractional charge feel ALL forces Force Boson(s) m/GeV EM (QED) Photon γ 0 Weak W± / Z 80 / 91 Strong (QCD) Gravity (?) 8 Gluons g Graviton? 0 0 Forces Quantum Mechanically: Forces arise due to exchange of VIRTUAL FIELD QUANTA v F v p q1 q2 Force Boson Strength Mass (GeV/c2) Strong Gluon g 1 Massless Electromagnetic Photon γ 10-2 Massless Weak W and Z W±, Z0 10-7 80, 91 Gravity Graviton ? 10-39 Massless Range of Forces The range of a force is directly related to the mass of the exchanged bosons Force Range (m) Strong Strong (Nuclear) 10-15 Electromagnetic ∞ Weak Gravity 1 fm distance at speed c means 3 10-23 s Uncertainty principle: E ~ 200 MeV i.e. pion Predicted in 1935; discovered in cosmic ray interactions in 1947 ∞ 10-18 ∞ + Time = Space Space Feynman diagrams Time FEYNMAN DIAGRAM Feynman devised a pictorial method to evaluate probability of interaction between fundamental particles Virtual particles Virtual Particles Feynman diagram a c b d time space space “Time-ordered QM” a c b d time •Momentum conserved at vertices •Energy not conserved at vertices •Exchanged particle “on mass shell” a c b d •Momentum AND energy conserved at interaction vertices •Exchanged particle “off mass shell” VIRTUAL PARTICLE •Can think of observable “on mass shell” particles as propagating waves and unobservable virtual particles as normal modes between the source particles Conservations Energy, momentum, charge Baryon number, lepton number Strangeness (and Colour) in Strong interactions Trees Penguins The story of penguin diagrams Particle Spin Introduced by Pauli in 1924 as new quantum degree of freedom which allowed formulation of Pauli exclusion principle. In 1925, it was suggested that it relates to self-rotation, but heavily criticised… only useful as a picture. In 1927 Pauli formulated theory of spin as a fully quantum object (non-relativistic). In 1928 Dirac described the relativistic electron as a spin object. In 1940 Pauli proved the spin-statistic theorem: fermions have half-integer spin and bosons have integer spin. Particle Spin Quantum mechanical, intrinsic angular momentum. Particles are observed to possess angular momentum that cannot be accounted for by orbital angular momentum. Although the direction of its spin can be changed, an elementary particle cannot be made to spin faster or slower. Spin cannot be explained by postulating that they are made up of even smaller particles rotating about a common centre of mass. Truly intrinsic property. Same behavior as angular momentum, quantised. Integer and half-integer values: fermions (Pauli exclusion principle) and bosons (Bose-Einstein condensation). Hadrons = massive Single free quarks are NEVER observed, but are always CONFINED in bound states, called HADRONS. Macroscopically hadrons behave as point-like COMPOSITE particles. Hadrons are of two types: MESONS (qq) • Bound states of a QUARK and an ANTIQUARK • All have INTEGER spin, Bosons ( ) " # ! ud ( ) "+ ! u d BARYONS (qqq) • Bound states of 3 QUARKS • All have HALF-INTEGER spin, Fermions p ! (uud ) PLUS ANTIBARYONS (q q q) qq qq q n ! (udd ) ( ) p ! uu d ( ) n ! ud d Isospin Heisenberg in 1932 suggested that neutron and proton are treated as different charge states of one particle, the nucleon. Idea originally introduced in nuclear physics to explain observed symmetry between protons and neutrons: e.g. mirror nuclei have similar strong interaction properties A nucleon is given a number ISOSPIN I and then there are 2 states with I3 with value +1/2 or -1/2: I = 1/2 , I3 = +1/2, -1/2 Mesons were firstly postulated as the carrier of the strong force. In 1947, the charged pion was discovered by a group of scientists in Bristol, looking at photographic emulsions exposed to cosmic rays. For ISOSPIN, one can put pions in a set of 3 They are formed by u and d quarks Charge Q = I3 + B/2 B=baryon number Relevance of ISOSPIN now understood as a consequence of very similar masses of u and d quarks, and conservation of isospin in strong interactions. About at the same time, scientists from Manchester found another new particle in interactions of cosmic rays in a cloud chamber. More and more were seen, and their rate of production in pion-proton reaction was measured and their lifetimes were also measured. This new kind of particle was STRANGE in the sense that they decay very very slowly but the reaction production proceed very fast. Besides, they are always produced in at least 2 of them. So they were called STRANGE particles ! Produced in pairs Now understood in terms of s quark and the fact the strong interaction conserve any quark type, so conserve also strangeness. Q = I3 + (B+S)/2 B=baryon number This is purely because s quark is not so much heavier Now classify mesons and baryons on basis of I3 and B+S: Quark Model B+S Same mass Same jump in mass I3 Same mass Same mass Spin=0 mesons Spin=3/2 baryons Possible to extend to include charm and beauty but less and less precise the more the quark is heavier Higgs mechanism Supersymmetry Only a small fraction of the total is ordinary matter that we know ! Resources: Quark game Top-trump card game Plus various others from websites: http://www.the-higgs-boson-and-beyond.org/ http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/DiscoveringParticles/ http://www.understanding-the-higgs-boson.org/ http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/lazzeroni/outreach/harry_card_game Particle Zoo: http://www.particlezoo.net/ Other Particle Physics Sessions: Particle Zoo and Feynman Diagrams Muirhead 118 7th January 2016, 10:00-12:00 ASE Frontier Science Lecture: The Mystery of Antimatter Poynting Physics S02 7th January 2016, 14:30-15:30 Schools’ STEM exhibitions: HiSPARC project Aston Webb Great Hall 8th January 2016, 9:00-12:30 Particle Teaching Resources: LHC Minerva Learning Centre LG13 8th January 2016, 9:30-11:30 Particle World for Primary Arts LR8 8th January 2016, 13:45-15:45 Please don’t forget to complete the on-‐line evalua7on for this session h8p://bit.ly/AC2016FF